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Today's Topics:

   1. Join IndyMedia Bombay! (PUKAR Monsoon)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 23:43:03 +0530
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From: PUKAR Monsoon <pukar at bol.net.in>
Subject: [Announcements] Join IndyMedia Bombay!

Dear Friends:

As part of its continuing activities with Mumbai college students, 
PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) is 
supporting the establishment of an Independent Media Centre (IMC) and 
IndyMedia network in Mumbai. The PUKAR Monsoon, a series of events 
and interactions with college students to be organised by the PUKAR 
Associates in July and August 2002, will feature a module on 
IndyMedia in Bombay.

"IndyMedia" has emerged globally as a non-hierarchical, 
non-commercial platform for the production and circulation of 
alternative news, opinions, and documentation. It is a medium created 
and maintained by local, grass-roots networks of activists, students, 
media practitioners and journalists organised around Independent 
Media Centres (IMCs) all over the world. It is completely open and 
inclusive of all opinions, providing a space for open publishing, 
information sharing, networking around local issues, events and 
protests. These IMCs work towards open, democratic, and non-corporate 
news and opinion. There are more than fifty IMCs on every continent, 
managed autonomously with their own mission statements, resource 
bases, and decision-making processes. For more information, visit 
http://www.indymedia.org and the existing India site at 
http://www.india.indymedia.org/.

We want to tap into the potential of this global network in order to 
establish an IMC in Mumbai. The IndyMedia network we envisage in 
Mumbai will not be headed by any person, organisation, or 
corporation, but will work as a network of students and young people, 
sharing information and turning ideas into action. The PUKAR Monsoon 
will help to launch the network amongst students in Mumbai in July 
and August.

We have decided to set up an e-mail list-serv to take forward the 
discussion about IndyMedia. TO SUBSCRIBE to this list please visit 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-mumbai and enter your 
e-mail address and a password.

A meeting to discuss these possibilities was held at PUKAR last week, 
and was attended by students, NGOs, and the PUKAR Associates. There 
will be another MEETING of students from several Mumbai colleges 
interested in the Bombay IndyMedia initiative on THURSDAY 30 MAY at 
3.00 p.m. at the Comet Media Foundation, Topiwala Lane Municipal 
School, Lamington Road, Mumbai 400007, Phone 3869052, 3821983. You 
are invited to attend and participate.

Regards,


Sanjay Bhangar
St Xavier's College

Shekhar Krishnan and Rahul Srivastava
Coordinators, PUKAR Secretariat
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627
Dadar, Mumbai 400014, India
E-Mail <pukarsecretariat at vsnl.net>
Phone +91 (022) 2077779, +91 98200.45529, +91 98204.04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in/


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